Razov remains on fire, staking Chicago to a 3-0 shutout of Wizards.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Saturday, March 27, 1999) -- Ante Razov feasted on the
failure of Kansas City's offside trap, netting a pair of goals and adding an
assist in the Chicago Fire's 3-0 win over the Wizards tonight before 15,509
fans at Arrowhead Stadium.

After two weeks, Razov has taken the lead in the Major League Soccer scoring
race with four goals and two assists. "When you play an offside trap, you're
asking for trouble," he said. "You might catch us seven out of 10 times, but
there are three times when you don't."

The Fire (2-0, 6 points) opened the scoring in the 10th minute when Jerzy
Podbrozny set Jesse Marsch loose on the right side. Marsch sent a cross in
front of the open goal mouth, and Razov beat Wizards defender Alexi Lalas to
the ball for the goal.

Razov set up Josh Wolff for the Fire's second goal in the 61st minute. Razov
beat the Wizards' offside trap with a long pass from Chris Armas, He slid the
ball past goalkeeper David Winner at the top of the penalty area, allowing
Wolff to score on an easy tap-in.

"Things went our way tonight, and we got a good road win," Chicago coach Bob
Bradley said. "K.C. tried to play an offside trap tonight and when you hold the
line like that, or try to hold the line you play dangerously, you rely on the
linesman. It is a dangerous situation and we have some speed up top so we got
behind them and in on goal.

Razov got behind the Kansas City defense again in the 69th minute, taking a
pass from Podbrozny and beating Winner with a shot from 15 yards out.

"We're supposed to be playing with a sweeper," Wizards defender Scott
Vermillion said. "When the middle man steps up (pushes forward on offense),
we're screwed. We have to figure out what system to play, whether offside trap
or whatever."

The Wizards (0-2, 0 points) extended their MLS-record scoreless streak to 460
minutes, dating back to last September 5. Chris Henderson squandered Kansas
City's best scoring opportunity against Fire goalkeeper Zach Thornton, hitting
the crossbar from three yards out in the 72nd minute.

"It's a snowball effect," Kansas City Head Coach Ron Newman said. "It keeps
getting worse, but we can score. Chris Henderson had two great chances, but he
wasn't able to put them away. We just have to keep working."

San Jose Clash 2, Colorado Rapids 2 (San Jose wins shooutout 4-3)

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose rallied from two goals back in the second half to
a 2-2 deadlock, then won a shootout 4-3 with Raul Diaz Arce converted the
winning shot in the sixth round of the tiebreaker.

Diaz Arce, with 56 goals the second all-time Major League Soccer scorer, made
his first start for his new team after coming on as a reserve in last weekend’s
opener.

Diaz Arce, who joined the Clash from New England in an offseason trade, pushed
a shot past goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann after Colorado's Peter Vermes sent his
sixth-round shootout attempt wide left. Eddie Lewis, Braeden Cloutier and Carlos
Farias also scored for San Jose in the tiebreaker.

To get to the shootout, the Clash (1-1, 1 point) rallied from a 2-0 deficit in
the final 31 minutes. San Jose began its comeback when Lewis knocked in a rebound
after Braeden Cloutier hammered a shot off the left post in the 59th minute. Rookie
defender Jamie Clark then netted the equalizer in the 80th minute when Rapids
defender Chris Martinez, a second-half substitute, sent his clearance of a Clash
corner kick to Clark.

"Eddie (Lewis) took the corner kick a little early," Clark said. "I was just
getting to the box. They tried to head it out, but it came right to me. I just
settled it and hit it."

Paul Bravo staked Colorado to a 2-0 lead with goals in the 18th and 48th minute.

Bravo, who began his MLS career with the Clash in 1996, has now scored six
goals and six assists in nine games against San Jose. For his first goal, Bravo
took a through ball from midfielder Ross Paule and slotted a shot past San Jose
goalkeeper David Kramer. Less than three minutes into the second half, Anders
Limpar's pass deflected off a Clash defender to Bravo at the top of the penalty
area, and Bravo buried a shot into the upper-left corner.

"We played with a lot more desire in the second half," Clash coach Brian Quinn
said. "Desire and intensity, that's what made the difference tonight."

Colorado is now 0-2 after dropping a pair of shootouts on the road.

Swedish midfielder Anders Limpar, who joined the Rapids this season, did not
need long to discern that ties on the road do not translate to a positive
result in MLS as is the case elsewhere in the world. "I'm used to going to away
games looking to at least tie, and then winning at home," he said. "That's how
you win championships. But in this league, if you lose the shoot-out, you get
no points, so we must do better and win these types of games in regulation," he
said.